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scraggly

adjective

being very thin

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Word length
8
Starts with
S
Ends with
Y
Contains
CR
Scrabble score
15

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adjective

  1. being very thin

    “a child with skinny freckled legs”

adjective

  1. ragged, thin, or untidy in appearance

    “the old man's scraggly beard”

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Example Sentences

a child with skinny freckled legs
a long scrawny neck
pale bony hands
the old man's scraggly beard
a scraggly little path to the door

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